Heat-guard for automobiles.



J. B. HARNSBERGER c, H. TROUT.

HEAT GUARD FOR AUTOMOBILES.-

F ED DEC.3l19 13.

APPLICATION Patented A1134. L915.

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Jill-Ha B. HARNSBERGER AND CHARLES H. TROUT, F FRGNT ROYAL, VIRGINIA.

HEAT-GUARD FOR AUTOMOBILES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A11 3, 1915.

I Application filed December 3, 1913. Serial No. 804,412.

To all whom in M ay concern:

Be it known that we, Jon E. Harris ianauca and CHARLES H. Tnou'r,citizens of the United States, residing at F rout Royal,

in the county of lVarren and State of Virginia, have invented certainnew and useful improvements in Heat-Guards for 'Automobiles, of whichthe following is a spoon iication, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawing.

Our invention relates to improvements in heat guards for automobiles.

The oljrct of our invention is to provide a guard for automobiles toprevent the hot air from passing upwardly through the openings in thebottom of the car through which the controlling lovers pass, andpertains more particularly to an attachment to be applied to the Fordautomobile.

Another objectof our invention is to provide a simple, cheap andQilEClllYb device of this character which can be readily applied to anyautomobile and having certain details of structure hereinafter morefully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a vertical sectional view of anautomobile showing our heat guard attached. Fig. 2 is a perspective viewof the heat. guard showing in dotted lines the transmission gear-case towhich our improved guard 15 attached.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 represents tho engine of an automobile,which is located within the hood in the front of the car; 2 representsthe dash-board and'3 the slanting portion of the tloor 4 of the car. Ina Ford automobile and other auto1no bilcs, the controlling levers 5, t5and 7 are pirotcd to the transmission case 8, below the iloor of the carand extend upwardly through slots 9 in the bottom of the car. All thisbeing of a construction shown in the ordinary automobile, it needs nofurther description, as our in vcntion resides in placing the guardbelow the floor of the automobile, so as to prevent. the heat afterpassing through the hood of the engine, from passing upwardly throughthe slots 9 in the lloor of the car, but will be diver ed downwardly andpass under the bottom of the elongated form, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.The upper edge of the guard is slightly curved, as indicated at 11, sothat it will engage the bottom of the car 3 and form a comparativelytight joint therewith. The lower end of the plate 10, forming the guard,is provided with a notch 12 and the metal 13 on one side of said slot isturned downwardly. The portion ll on the oppositesideof the slot is inthe same plane as the remainder of the guard and is provided with twoopenings 15 and 16 through which pass bolts 17, by means of which theguard is secured to the upper face of the transmission case 18. Thistransmissioi'ncase has a slanting upper face, as shown in Eig. 1 of thedrawing, and the downwardly turned portion 13 ot' the guard fits closelythe side walls of the transmission case and extends down approximatelyin a line with the pivotal connection of the controlling lovers 5, 6 and7. As shown in Fig. l of the drawings, this downwardly turned portion13, provides a space or room for the swinging of the lovers and yetprevents the heated air, as it passes through the hood past the on gine,from passing upwardly through the slots 9 in the slanting portion 3 inthe bottom of the car.

\Vhile we have shown and described this invention more particularlyadapted for the Ford automobile, it will be understood that it could bereadily applied to any other automobile in which the controlling leversextend through the floor of the car.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings,we have shown the upper edge of the guard withopenings 19, whereby the device can be secured directly to the floor ofthe car, as it might be found necessary in some cases where thetransmission case is not directly beside the pivotal connection of thecontrolling levers.

As is readily understood, the fan at the forward end of the hood of thecar draws the air through the radiator and forces it back past theengine and it strikes the inclined portion 3 on the bottom or the carand a greater portion thereof passes downwardly under the car. It has,however, been found a vast amount of the heat passes out through theslots and by the placing of the guard or plate 10 in the position shownin Fig. 1, the heat strikes the plate and is diverted downwardly andpasses under the car without any of it passing upwardly through theslots 9 of the controlling levers.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and'desire to secureby Letters Patent is:-

1. The combination with an automobile, having slots in the floorthereof, controlling levers passing through the slots'and pivoted belowthe floor, a plate secured to the transmission -at one side of theleversrand having downwardly extending curved portion opposite thelevers whereby the hot air is diverted downwardly past the floor of thecar.

2. The combination with an automobile, having slots in the floorthereof, controlling levers passing through said slots and pivoted belowthe floor, of a plate having a curved upper end adapted to engage thefloor of the car, means at one side of the plate for securing it to thetransmission case, and a downwardly turned portion of the opposite sideof the plate adapted to allow the levers to swing on their pivots and todivert the hot air from the engine downwardly .past the slots in thefloor of the car.

3. The combination with an automobile having slots in the floor thereof,controlling levers passing through the slots and pivoted below thefloor, a plate secured below the floor at one side of the lever andhaving a downwardly extending curved portion opposite the levers wherebythe hot air is diverted downwardly past the floor of the car.

4. The combination with-an automobile having slots in the floor thereof,controlling levers passing through said slots and pivoted below thefloor of the car, a plate having its upper end adapted to engage thefloor of the ear, means at one side of the floor for securing it to thetransmission case and i a downwardly turned portion at the opposite sideof the plate adapted to allow the levers to swing on the pivots and todivert the hot air from the engine downwardly past the slots in thefloor.

In testimony whereof we hereunto ailix our signatures in the presence oftwo witnesses.

JOll-N 13. lIA RNSBERGER. CHARLES ll. TKO U'l.

Witnesses \V. N. Leon, W. \V. Joilxsox.

